Olweus is one of the world leaders in Bully research and prevention. Recently the ATA (American Taekwondo Association) has partnered with Olweus to offer bully prevention education to students and parents across the country. Check out the resent post on the Olweus website! You can also see more at www.ATALeadershipNOW.com.  

New data from a survey of over half a million students reveals that 17 percent are bullied two to three times a month or more within the school semester. The survey, which was featured in the Washington Post’s “The Answer Sheet” section, was conducted by Dan Olweus, an expert in the research of bullying, and was released by the Olweus [...]

Creating a HAPPIER Community Bullying Prevention thru Olweus and Songahm Taekwondo Bullying is one of the most difficult issues that students, parents and educators might encounter in or out of school. Discipline, order and respect are mainstays of Songahm Taekwondo, but many instructors offer additional support with presentations from the The Olweus Bullying Prevention Program, the most researched and best-known [...]

One of the world’s leaders in bully prevention research is the Olweus organization. Their website has a lot of great information on it and is defiantly worth looking checking out.

According to the Department of Justice: Bullying has two key components: repeated harmful acts and an imbalance of power. It involves repeated physical, verbal, or psychological attacks or intimidation directed against a victim who cannot properly defend him- or herself because of size or strength, or because the victim is outnumbered or less psychologically resilient. Bullying includes assault, tripping, intimidation, rumor-spreading and isolation, [...]